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antnield
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The Stuart Hall Project

#1 Post by antnield » Fri Nov 01, 2013 10:47 am

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Re: The Stuart Hall Project

#2 Post by RossyG » Fri Nov 01, 2013 11:02 am

A particularly unfortunate title, needless to say, but this looks fascinating.

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Re: The Stuart Hall Project

#3 Post by antnield » Wed Dec 18, 2013 8:07 am

Press release:
The Stuart Hall Project
Revolution, politics, culture and the New Left experience
A film by John Akomfrah

One of the most charismatic and inspiring voices of the post-war Left, Stuart Hall has profoundly influenced the academic landscape with his work in the field of cultural theory. Chronicling his life and career, The Stuart Hall Project is an intimate and engaging portrait from director John Akomfrah (The Nine Muses, Handsworth Songs). Highly acclaimed at this year’s Sundance and Sheffield Documentary film festivals, and heaped with critical praise when it opened in UK cinemas in September, it will be released on DVD by the BFI on 20 January 2014.

John Akomfrah’s portrayal of the life and times of this public intellectual follows him from his working-class beginnings in Jamaica through to his arrival as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford in 1951, where he co-founded the New Left Review, and his subsequent career as the UK’s leading cultural theorist and architect of cultural studies at Birmingham University and later the Open University.

Using extensive archival imagery – home movies, family photographs and excerpts from Hall’s many film, television and radio appearances – Akomfrah's filmmaking approach matches the agility of Hall's intellect. The film explores its themes of memory, race and identity through the juxtaposition of events from Hall’s life and a discourse on the wider social and political events of the second half of the twentieth century.

Akomfrah’s soundtrack features a wide range of music by Miles Davis, Hall’s favourite musician, brilliantly chosen to reflect and comment on the film’s shifts in mood and tone as it moves through decades of change.

Special features

- The Stuart Hall Project Q&A (2013): John Akomfrah and Baroness Young in conversation at BFI Southbank
- John Akomfrah and Stuart Hall Q&A with Parminder Vir (2013): audio recording from the ICA screening of The Stuart Hall Project
- Black and White in Colour Rushes (1992): interview with John Akomfrah recorded for Isaac Julien’s Television, Memory, Race, from the BBC’s ‘Black and White in Colour’ season
- Original trailer
- Optional 5.1 surround soundtrack
- Illustrated booklet including a newly commissioned essay by Mark Fisher

Product details
RRP: £19.99 / cat. no. BFIVD998 / Cert 12
UK / 2013 / colour and black & white / English language, with optional hard-of-hearing subtitles / 95 mins / DVD9 / Original aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16x9 anamorphic) / Dolby Digital mono audio (320 kbps)
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Re: The Stuart Hall Project

#4 Post by TMDaines » Thu Dec 19, 2013 5:16 am

RossyG wrote:A particularly unfortunate title, needless to say, but this looks fascinating.
Have you got your Stuart Hall(s) confused?

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Re: The Stuart Hall Project

#5 Post by MichaelB » Thu Dec 19, 2013 6:31 am

TMDaines wrote:
RossyG wrote:A particularly unfortunate title, needless to say, but this looks fascinating.
Have you got your Stuart Hall(s) confused?
The sociologist Stuart Hall was already famous long before anyone had ever heard of the jailed gameshow host.

In fact, far from being an "unfortunate title" ("particularly" or otherwise), I'd say that this is an excellent opportunity to highlight the fact that there's a considerably more distinguished Stuart Hall out there - at least as far as people who didn't already know this are concerned. Effectively, this release is reclaiming the name.

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Re: The Stuart Hall Project

#6 Post by RossyG » Thu Dec 19, 2013 7:17 am

TMDaines wrote:
RossyG wrote:A particularly unfortunate title, needless to say, but this looks fascinating.
Have you got your Stuart Hall(s) confused?
No.

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Re: The Stuart Hall Project

#7 Post by TMDaines » Thu Dec 19, 2013 8:36 am

RossyG wrote:
TMDaines wrote:
RossyG wrote:A particularly unfortunate title, needless to say, but this looks fascinating.
Have you got your Stuart Hall(s) confused?
No.
Whoops, I now realise that by "title", you are referring to the actual name of the work, as opposed to the piece of work itself. Oh the vagaries of the English language!

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